Central Asian NGOs Call for Biodiversity Safeguards in Renewable Energy Shift
The rapid expansion of renewable energy in Central Asia is creating new risks for the region’s vulnerable ecosystems. To prevent conflict between climate targets and...
Dams Without Accountability: Why AIIB Should Be Wary of Hydropower
Over ten years of its existence, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has considered just ten hydropower projects for financing. Three were cancelled, seven received...
Rogun Dam Assessment Faces Criticism Over Regional Impact
The transboundary impact assessment for the Rogun Hydropower Plant in Tajikistan faces criticism for containing fundamental flaws and failing to meet World Bank environmental and...
Rogun Dam Study Ignores Key Risks, Threatens Regional Stability
The transboundary impact assessment for Tajikistan's Rogun Hydropower Plant (HPP) fails to meet World Bank environmental and social standards and contains fundamental shortcomings, according to...
Life in exchange for kilowatts: Rogun Dam and resettlement from the flood zone
The international coalition Rogun Alert published today an analysis of plans to relocate people from the flood zone of the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan, calling...
Construction of the Rogun Dam: environmentalists warn about the loss of biodiversity
International financial institutions and the Government of Tajikistan have faced harsh criticism from the environmental community in connection with plans to build the Rogun Dam....
The Board of Directors of the World Bank refused to investigate the Rogun Dam
The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank refused to conduct a full-scale investigation into the Rogun Dam construction project in Tajikistan. This decision...
Converting lives into kilowatts: resettlement plans for Rogun HPP project threaten tens of thousands of people
“Rogun Alert”, a coalition of concerned CSOs, has analyzed the Resettlement Action Plan and Livelihood Restoration Plan (RAP-2 and LRP-2) for the Rogun HPP construction...
Hearings on the Kambarata-1 Dam: a “black box” instead of an environmental assessment
Experts of the public foundation "Rivers without Boundaries" took part in public hearings on the materials of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (EIA) of...
Dam projects on the Koksu River threaten the historical heritage of Kazakhstan
A press conference dedicated to the problem of the destruction of archaeological sites as a result of the implementation of industrial projects was held at...